Cardiologist FAQs

TEE: Trans-esophageal Echocardiogram Procedure

TEE (trans-esophageal echocardiogram) what we prefer to in the hospital as TEE is a process whereby we make a patient swallow a probe and the probe takes breathtaking pictures of the heart from the esophagus, from the food pipe the esophagus sits right...View More

TEE (trans-esophageal echocardiogram) what we prefer to in the hospital as TEE is a process whereby we make a patient swallow a probe and the probe takes breathtaking pictures of the heart from the esophagus, from the food pipe the esophagus sits right behind the heart and the probe is very to the cardiac structures so we see surprising detail and TEE is invaluable when it comes to diagnosing certain conditions.